The description of the corporate boundaries
of the City of Hornell, as recorded in a resolution of the Hornell
Common Council dated February 14, 1939, is hereby amended to read
as follows: All that district of country in the County of Steuben
included within the following mentioned and described line shall hereafter
form and constitute the City of Hornell, namely: beginning at a point
on the present west boundary of the present City of Hornell, said
point being on the division line between Great Lots Number Five and
Six and at the center of a poplar tree 31 feet distant north of the
center line of the present state (or county) road to Almond, thence
north along said great line 7 chains and 77 links; thence north 72°
east 15 chains to the north side of road leading to Bald Hill; thence
north 84° 15' east and 30 chains to a marked Basswood tree (said
line crossing Erie Railway tacks 3 chains and 52 links south of south
end of theformer Number Two Bridge of said railway); thence along
the southwesterly bank of Canisteo River 44 chains and 88 links, to
the line between the Great Lots Seven and Eight; thence southerly
and southeasterly along west bank of Canisteo River to a stake (said
stake being south 13° west and 72 feet distant from a marked elm
tree on the east bank of said river, and also north 17° 30' west
and 23 1/2 feet distant from a marked oak tree on the west bank
of said river); thence south 84° east along the line between the
lands formerly owned by Martin Adsit and Martin Curry, a distance
of 16 chains and 69 links to a stake 10 rods east of the east line
of Lincoln Street (said stake being south 23° west and 23 feet
distant from a marked ash tree, and also north 50° west and 35
feet distant from a marked ash tree, and being on lands formerly owned
by Martin Adsit) thence south 9° 15' east a distance of 56 chains
and 21 links to the south line of lands formerly owned by Dugald Cameron,
deceased; thence easterly along said south line of Cameron lands to
the line between the Great Lots Numbers Nine and Ten, thence south
along said line between said Great Lots Numbers Nine and Ten 83 chains
and 43 links to the present most southerly boundary of said city (April
20th, 1906); thence continuing south 13 chains and 3 links to a point
on the above mentioned line (between Great Lots Nine and Ten) extended;
thence westerly to an iron stake in the division line between Great
Lots Seven and Eight; thence north 11° 57' 55" east along said
Great Lot Line a distance of 1101.10 feet to a point, said point being
located northerly from the center line of Spencer Avenue; thence south
75° 10' 19" west, approximately along the northerly bounds of
Gypsy Hill Road, so called, passing through an existing monument,
at a distance of 55.03 feet, a total distance of 947.90 feet, to a
point; thence south 69° 17' 30" west continuing along said approximate
northerly bounds a distance of 559.00 feet, to a point; thence south
43° 42' 31" west continuing along said approximate northerly bounds
a distance of 524.50 feet to an existing monument, said point located
along the center line of Prentiss Street, a street not now in use;
thence north 7° 59' 42" east along said center line a distance
of 527.41 feet to a point; thence north 41° 48' 03" east continuing
along said center line a distance of 753.72 feet to a point, said
point intended to be along the southerly line of Year 1906 city line;
thence north 78° 15' 18" west along said 1906 city line, passing
through an iron pipe located along the westerly bounds of said Prentiss
Street, a distance of 1139.43 feet to an existing monument, said point
intended to be located along the westerly city line, the westerly
line of said Great Lot Number Seven; thence continuing north along
the line between Great Lots Number Six and Seven, 83 chains, thence
northerly 32 chains and 67 links, more or less, through a point on
the center line and at the westerly end of the concrete pavement west
of the new overhead crossing of the Erie Railroad to a point in the
recent addition to the Catholic cemetery, said point being distant
northerly 100 feet from the above-mentioned center line of western
end of concrete pavement; thence northwesterly 35 chains to the place
of beginning.